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Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Something nasty in the kitchen?
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-03-27 7:04:04
Message-ID: 200703270804.12267.cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk
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On Monday 26 March 2007, Martin Bernreuther wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. März 2007 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > This morning I am unable to start kontact, or indeed stand-alone kmail,
> > on my Mandriva laptop.  The attempt consumes all my memory without
> > getting anywhere.  Starting from konsole I see endless messages of
> >
> > QGArray::at: Absolute Index 895106700 out of range
> > QGArray::at: Absolute Index 895106704 out of range
> > QGArray::at: Absolute Index 895106708 out of range
> > QGArray::at: Absolute Index 895106712 out of range
> > QGArray::at: Absolute Index 895106716 out of range
> > etc.
> >
> > What has become corrupt?  And how do I clear it?  Thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> something similar happend to me, too. (OpenSUSE 10.2)
> Using all disk space of the home partition...
> In my case, a broken *.index.ids file somewhere
> in a ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ (disconnected) imap (sub)folder
> caused the problem.  I think that a machine shutdown might
> have played a role.
>
> I used a suggested command from
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71549#c26
> to determine the "bad guy":
> 	find ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail -name '*.ids' -exec grep -Hc '^\*xV4' '{}' \;
> | grep -v ':1$' and deleted it afterwards. (BTW, Thank you Tim Weber!)
>
> Since AFAIK these files are (re)generated through kmail,
> it might be also be possible to delete all of the index files...
> (There's a backup anyway, isn't it?)
>
> Hope, you'll manage to fix the problem, too!
>
I did try deleting the index files, as I knew they had sometimes been 
problematic, but it made no difference.  By moving the whole 
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/  directory to my desktop I knew I could recover 
anything that was important.  KMail regenerated everything, and as far as I 
can see the only thing I lost was my customisations to the toolbar.  No big 
deal :-)

I can't say that I understand the script but I did try it on the moved folder.  
It returned '.sent-mail.index.ids:2'.  That's interesting, because when I 
have met the old problem of corrupted indexes causing lost messages that has 
usually involved the sent-mail folder.  Also, having deleted the index files 
once, they must have been generated then corrupted again very quickly.  
That's worrying.

I don't know whether its relevant, but since it happened at the same time I 
should mention it, starting kde on that laptop is now taking a very long 
time.

Anne

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